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单词 milkweed
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milkweed
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milkweed: milkweeds
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Monarchs lay their eggs exclusively on milkweed, which provides nectar for adult butterflies and imbues feeding caterpillars with a toxin that protects them from birds.
Washington Times(Nov 20, 2016)
The waystations will have native milkweed plants for use as breeding habitat and sunflower seeds for nutrition.
Washington Times(Nov 18, 2016)
The butterflies’ numbers have dwindled sharply in recent years, as milkweed declined in the United States and deforestation affected their Mexican habitat.
New York Times(Nov 17, 2016)
1n any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts
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silkweed
Asclepias albicans, white milkweed
tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States
Asclepias curassavica, blood flower, swallowwort
tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics
Asclepias exaltata, poke milkweed
milkweed of the eastern United States with leaves resembling those of pokeweed
Asclepias incarnata, swamp milkweed
densely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers
Asclepia meadii, Asclepias meadii, Mead's milkweed
milkweed of central North America; a threatened species
Asclepias purpurascens, purple silkweed
perennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers
Asclepias speciosa, showy milkweed
milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers
Asclepias subverticillata, horsetail milkweed, poison milkweed
milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock
Asclepias tuberosa, Indian paintbrush, butterfly weed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root
erect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers
Asclepias verticillata, whorled milkweed
milkweed of the eastern United States with narrow leaves in whorls and greenish-white flowers
herb, herbaceous plant
a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
2n annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads
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Sonchus oleraceus
milk thistle, sow thistle
any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil
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